The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 24

“I am spinning, my pretty child,” said the old woman, who did not know who she was.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: spin, say, not know, be · To what, where: old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 spinning	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spinning	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spinning	aux
4	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spinning	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spinning	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 spinning	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 woman	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	19 know	ccomp
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 who	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 who	cop
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spin in a quote	present · progressive	the old woman = woman		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know	past · do-support	the old woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	woman	the old woman	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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